Sea

Question 1

Sea cliff

Answer 1

Cliffs of Mohar Co. Clare

Question 2

Sea cave

Answer 2

Cliffs of Mohar

Question 3

Sea arch

Answer 3

Old head of kinsale Co. Cork

Question 4

Sea stack

Answer 4

Ballybunion Co. Kerry

Question 5

Sea cliff

Answer 5

Cliffs of Mohar Co. Clare

Benwee head Co. Mayo

Question 6

Blow hole

Answer 6

Mc Sweeney’s gun Co. Donegal

Question 7

Spits

Answer 7

Port Marnock Co. Dublin

Bannow Bay Co. Wexford

Question 8

Bars

Answer 8

Lady’s Island Lake Co. Wexford

Loch Muiri Co. Clare

Question 9

Tombolos

Answer 9

Howth Co. Dublin joined to Sutton

Question 10

Bay and headland

Answer 10

Dublin bay and howth head Co. Dublin

Question 11

Hydraulic action

Answer 11

Erosion by the power of moving water

Question 12

Compressed air

Answer 12

Air in the rocks

Question 13

Abrasion

Answer 13

Erosion by the seas load

Question 14

Attrition

Answer 14

Erosion of the seas load

Question 15

A bay

Answer 15

A large curve in open into the coast. Dublin bay

Question 16

A headland

Answer 16

A piece of land sticking out into the sea. Howth head co. Dublin

Question 17

A sea cliff

Answer 17

A high rock face that slopes very steeply up from the shore

Question 18

Sea caves

Answer 18

A large hole or tunnel at the foot of a cliff.

Question 19

A sea arch

Answer 19

An archway in a rocky headland

Question 20

A Sea stack

Answer 20

A pillar of a rock near the coast

Question 21

A sea stump

Answer 21

Remains of a sea stack when it’s eroded

Question 22

A blow holes

Answer 22

A hole which joins the roof of a cave to the surface above.

Question 23

Transport by the sea

Answer 23

The shingle carried by the sea is called load
Or
Load is moved:
Up the shore by the force if moving incoming waves and back down the shore
Along the shore by Longshore drift

Question 24

Longshore drift

Answer 24

Waves approach the shore from the side
Swash pushes up the beach at an angle
Each backwash drags some of the material straight into the sea
As process repeats, material is transported along the sea in a zig-zag motion

Question 25

Grounds

Answer 25

Low walls built the stop Longshore Drift

Question 26

Sea deposition

Answer 26

The sea drops it's load where the power of the wave is reduced

Question 27

Beaches

Answer 27

Smash pushes material up the beach. Backwash carried some of the load back

Question 28

Sand dunes

Answer 28

Large mounds at the back of beaches formed by the wind. Marram grass is planted in the sand dunes to prevent the sand invading near by land

Question 29

Spits

Answer 29

Formed by Longshore Drift. A narrow ridge of sand juts out into the sea while the other is connected to the land. Made of shingle. Port marnock. Co. Dublin

Question 30

Bars

Answer 30

A spit may grow until it reaches the other side so the bay, former spit now known as Bar. A lagoon is a small artifice lake that gets trapped behind the bar. E.g. Lady's Island Lake, co. Wexford

Question 31

Tombolos

Answer 31

Narrow ridge of sand and shingle that joins an off shore island to the main land. A spit may grow in length until it reaches a near by island. Howth, Co. Dublin joins to Sutton